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An opportunity is available for outstanding PhD students to conduct research in a program aiming to reduce sports concussion risks. Concussion in collision sports is a prominent community health concern mostly occurring during tackles. https://www.sydney.edu.au/scholarshi...ncussions.html
To make sport safer for all players, our research will reveal how a rugby players’ tackles alters their head forces and how retraining their tackle technique can reduce their concussion risk. Scholarships are offered for the following research projects:
This Scholarship is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Ideas Grant*.
Benefits The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance of $29,187 per annum for up to 3.5 years, subject to satisfactory academic performance. No extension will be allowed.
Who's eligible You must:
To make sport safer for all players, our research will reveal how a rugby players’ tackles alters their head forces and how retraining their tackle technique can reduce their concussion risk. Scholarships are offered for the following research projects:
- Project A: 3D Tackle Biomechanics - This PhD scholarship will focus on the analysis of the tackler’s and the ball carrier’s inertial head kinematics and 3D tackle motion measured via the gold-standard of 3D motion capture across two seasons in male adult rugby adult players. This student will develop the skills, experience in complex 3D motion analysis, and this position supports training the next generation our biomechanical researchers.
- Project B: Video Coding Analysis - This PhD scholarship will focus on the video coding analysis to ascertain if the tackling intervention modifies a player's in-game tackle technique, and if this will be maintained across the season. They will record the field-based game data of 1 of the 2 teams per game across the two seasons. This qualitative video analysis is essential to identify the efficacy of our intervention to change player's tackling behaviour in-game.
This Scholarship is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Ideas Grant*.
Benefits The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance of $29,187 per annum for up to 3.5 years, subject to satisfactory academic performance. No extension will be allowed.
Who's eligible You must:
- be willing to apply for admission, applied for admission, have a conditional or unconditional offer of admission to commence, or be currently enrolled in a full-time PhD within the Faculty of Medicine and Health
- undertake research in one of the two specified project areas:
- Project A: 3D Tackle Biomechanics, or
- Project B: Video Coding Analysis
- demonstrate evidence of Indigenous community participation/involvement.